Title : PM Poshan Shakti Nirman Scheme

Date : Nov 11, 2021

Description :

                       

Prelims Specific

 

• Why in News:

• The existing Mid-Day Meal scheme, which provides hot meals to students, has been recently renamed as the National Scheme for PM Poshan Shakti Nirman.

 

• About the Mid-Day meal scheme:

• The National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education (NP-NSPE) was launched as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme in 1995. 
• Objective: To enhance enrolment, retention and attendance and simultaneously improve nutritional levels among children. 
• In 2001 it became a cooked Mid Day Meal Scheme.
• The Scheme covers children of classes I-VIII studying in government, government-aided schools, special training centres (STC) and madarsas/ maqtabs supported under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). 
• It is the largest school feeding programme in the world.
• It is covered by the National Food Security Act, 2013.

 

• Source à The Hindu

 

Tags : welfare schemes, mid day meal